04/01/1969 – Four Armstrong School District taxpayers have filed suit asking that the school district be prohibited from carrying out the Long Range Development Plan and purchasing the Ellermeyer property for the West Hills High School. Lois Parks of West Franklin Township, Joseph E. Stubrick of Kittanning Township, Henry Augustine of Kittanning and Walter Stoops filed the Civil Action in Equity in the county Prothonotary’s office. Harry Heilman, Jr., Peter Calarie, and Stern & Winters of Pittsburgh are attorneys.
04/01/1969 – A salvage operation is continuing on a one-lane highway bridge that fell into the Clarion River yesterday when a truck loaded with 24 tons of steel crashed into a guard rail and toppled on of three spans into 40-foot water. Highway Department officials set the damage on the 15-ton load limit bridge at $100,000.
04/01/1969 – Sen. Albert R. Pechan of 903 5th Ave., Ford City, will be the keynote speaker at an invitational leadership development conference on Smoking and Health Education to be held April 9 at the Memorial Field House, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana.
04/01/1969 – The Rotary Club named Linda Chauvaux, senior student at Kittanning High School, as its Girl-of-the-Month during a meeting yesterday.
04/01/1969 – Ford City: PPG Industries Inc. announced today the retirement of William R. Schwab, director of production at the Ford City plant.
04/01/1964 - Armstrong County Commissioners made public today a proposed 1964 budget contemplating greater spending than last year, with no increase in taxes.
04/01/1964 - A Navy man from West Kittanning, a retired Pittsburgh Plate Glass Industries worker from Ford City and the son of an Applewold woman are among area persons reported safe in the Alaskan earthquake. The Navy man is 21-year-old James Klingensmith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence B. Klingensmith of 403 Harrison St. The former PPG employe is Emil Slabon, who lives with his son-in-law and daughter, Spec. 5 and Mrs. John Shilling. The Applewold woman’s son is also a serviceman, Airman I. C. Richard C, Shaffer, 25, whose mother is Mrs. Dorothy Yapp of 361 Franklin Ave.
04/01/1959 - Kittanning Borough became a two-police-cruiser town with the delivery of a new Chevrolet. Both cars will be equipped with a two-way radio, permitting communications with one another and the switchboard at Kittanning Telephone Company.
04/01/1959 - Former Burgess Harry E. Himes Jr. put in his first day as Kittanning’s new postmaster. Himes succeeded James Perry King who held the post for over a quarter of a century.
04/01/1959 - A. P. “Lon” Merwin, president of Kittanning Borough Council, assumed the duties of burgess when former burgess Harry E. Himes Jr. resigned to become postmaster.
04/01/1954 - Bids To Be Opened April 30 For Improvement of Templeton Road.
04/01/1954 - Kittanning Union School District will be looking for additional funds to meet anticipated expenditures in fiscal 1954-55 unless figures presented in a preliminary budget can be sliced further.
04/01/1954 - Detour signs will go up again this construction season on Route 422 west of Kittanning as construction crews complete the first section of a proposed four lane freeway to link Butler and Kittanning.
04/01/1949 - Two atom smasher coils moved at the rate of three and four miles an hour from Kittanning to Carnegie Tech’s research center at Saxonburg.
04/01/1949 - An ex-servicemen’s spokesman asked community assistance in obtaining names of all district Gold Star Mothers. The combined war veteran groups of Kittanning plan to present pins to eligible mothers in connection with observance here Memorial Day.
04/01/1944 - Clark Grates, elderly Kittanning man who lived alone in a two-room house at Edgewood, lost all his furnishings, all his clothing and a sum of money when fire razed the frame structure.
04/01/1944 - Dr. Paul R. Newcomb of the camp and hospital committee of Armstrong Chapter of American Red Cross has received a requisition for five knitted afghans.
04/01/1939 - Operations are being speeded at the site of Crooked Creek flood control dam near the village of Tunnelville, with the arrival of more favorable construction weather. Progress recently has been confined for the most part to pouring of concrete in the intake building.
04/01/1939 - Rural residents who park their cars on Water Street during their Saturday shopping forays in Kittanning looked in vain for an encore to the pneumonia-tempting performance of four local youngsters who last Saturday jumped the gun on Spring by taking a swim in the Allegheny River.
04/01/1929 - At a meeting in Hotel Alexander, Kittanning Rotarians elected these men as officers for the new club year: C. B. McNees, president; the Rev. W. V. Ritchie, secretary; Chris K. Leard, treasurer; Dwight C. Morgan and Roland B. Simpson, directors.
4/01/1929 - Wholesale prices in the Kittanning market today include: butter, 35c per pound; eggs, 25c a dozen and hay, $14 per ton.